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It’s here where creativity counts most when it comes to nutritional food that is appealing, Mrs. Burke notes. “I mean what child right now is going to eat stewed tomatoes,” she adds.
So, the cafeterias use stewed tomatoes in lasagna and spaghetti, named by some high school students as “favorites.” At the elementary, sweet potatoes are transformed into “sweet pea cookies,” and are gobbled up by the youngsters.
Overall, based on an informal survey taken on the day of this report, Rappahannock students rate their schools’ food “pretty good.” They like what has become “fast food” best: hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, pizza. The latter is their favorite, hands down.
“It’s good. They make good stuff,” offers fourth-grader Amy Barley, who had traded her cake for a second piece of com before eating everything on her tray. “It’s pretty good,” says eleventhgrader H.B. Wood III, who is more restrained in compliments while he enjoys a second piece of pizza.
“School lunches are super...and I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t mean it,” high school Principal Robert Chappell comments after passing through the serving line.
Not everything is perfect, however. Both students and Food Service administrators say thingB could get better.
Seventh-grader Irvin Freeman points to what he considers a problem at the elementary. “We don’t get as much food as we want,” he says.
The amount of food served is established nationwide by the government for all public schools. To insure these standards are met, Mrs. Burke
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